Testing environment setup
Note: This section is under development.
Yii2 has officially maintained integration with Codeception
testing
framework that allows you to create the following test types:
- Unit testing - verifies that a single unit of code is working as expected;
- Functional testing - verifies scenarios from a user's perspective via browser emulation;
- Acceptance testing - verifies scenarios from a user's perspective in a browser.
Yii provides ready to use test sets for all three test types in both
yii2-basic
and
yii2-advanced
application templates.
In order to run tests you need to install Codeception. A good way to install it is the following:
composer global require "codeception/codeception=2.0.*"
composer global require "codeception/specify=*"
composer global require "codeception/verify=*"
If you've never used Composer for global packages before, run composer global status
. It should output:
Changed current directory to <directory>
Then add <directory>/vendor/bin
to you PATH
environment variable. Now we're able to use codecept
from command
line globally.